Comment on [Question] Firewall noob vs. port forward

drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am trying to learn in a safe environment without breaking my existing network. It’s not actually a WAN, except from the firewall’s point of view.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am no expert, but maybe something about 192.168 not being broadcast across wan as it is restricted to local…i coukd be wrong

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    • tofubl@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you please elaborate? Who’s restricting 192.168.0.x? It’s not actually WAN, right? It’s just a local network I connected the firewall to.

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      • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Again, I’m not a network expert. i just wondered if to the firewall your WAN side connection (not Actually WAN) had some baked in rules to drop 192.168 from that side?? If that is not it does your port forward specify IP range to forward from?

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